A. A concept associated with Russian formalism
B. An idea explored by Viktor Shklovsky
C. A term that describes the capacity of art to counter the effects of habit
D. All of the above.
Related Mcqs:
- Which of the following texts provides the best example of defamiliarization ?
A. Aristotle’s Poetics
B. Leo Tolstoy’s The Kreutzer Sonata
C. John Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
D. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness - What is defamiliarization ?
A. A term that describes how literature exposes its own artificiality
B. An idea explored by Viktor Shklovsky
C. A term that describes the capacity of art to counter the effects of habit
D. All of the above answers are correct. - Which of the following texts provides the best example of defamiliarization ?
A. Aristotle’s Poetics
B. Leo Tolstoy’s The Kreutzer Sonata
C. Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
D. W.E.B. Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk - Trauma theory is tremendously influenced by which theoretical school ?
A. Psychoanalysis
B. Marxism
C. Feminism
D. Deconstruction - In general, what is Judith Butler’s concept of gender ?
A. Women’s gender is artificial, while men’s gender is not.
B. While gender is not real, the stereotypes that accompany it are true.
C. Gender is a problematic, but essentially true, category.
D. Gender is largely a cultural construct. - Ultimately, the literary theory of deconstruction argues that___________?
A. texts are always heterogeneous.
B. the instability of a text is actually evident in the text itself.
C. any system for the production of meaning is inevitably bound by context, yet also limitless.
D. All of the above. - What is the central idea of Ferdinand de Saussure’s Course in General Linguistics ?
A. Language is inseparable from its historical context.
B. There are five phases of linguistic development.
C. Language can be analyzed as a formal system of elements.
D. Linguistics is too complicated to be distilled to a formula. - Which of the following literary theorists is most closely associated with the concept that became known as liberal humanism ?
A. Aristotle
B. Viktor Shklovsky
C. Cleanth Brooks
D. Stanley Fish - New trends in literary theory tend to do which of the following ?
A. Reject all previous modes of literary theory
B. Focus on a return to traditional critical methods
C. Make use of different literary theories in order to develop new theories
D. Work only with ideas developed by post-Marxist theorists - What is Christopher Ricks’s attitude toward literary theory ?
A. He considers it to be vital in order to understand literary texts.
B. He considers theory to be the only way that literary texts can be interpreted.
C. He has no misgivings about the practical usability of literary theory.
D. He feels that literary theory is ultimately too limited in scope to serve as a proper method of interpretation.
